Hello, and Happy Halloween!
It’s been over a month since I last wrote a post, but all that’s about to change. I’ve got 17 posts cued up, so throughout November, you’ll get to see all the things we did in September and October! I usually post pictures on Flickr as-they-happen, so you can always check out my Flickr stream to get a sneak peek when there’s a posting drought. My plate has been wonderfully…almost overwhelmingly full on the photography front this last month, and work gets priority over the blog:) But Bryan’s sister, Melanie, visited us last weekend, and I want to share pictures from that visit. So you’ll get a peek at our last few days before jumping back to see the colors of September.
As I type, I’m looking out my window at our beautiful maple. It’s a deep golden. The leaves are damp, and the sky is gray, and somehow that seems to deepen and enhance the saturation of the colors. It almost takes my breath away, it’s so deeply beautiful:)
We were all delighted to have Melanie fly up to Wisconsin to visit us last weekend, and as always, we had a great time playing together. We watched the last game of the World Series, played Quirkle Cubed, went to a Badger Women’s hockey game, joined some hordes of costumed kids on State Street and saw Wayne the Wizard do his Halloween magic show, went for a hike at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center, and in general, just enjoyed being together.
Since today is Halloween, I thought I’d share some photos of yesterday’s pumpkin carving…
Here’s Bryan and Andrew working on a little pumpkin. They’re pounding golf tees in it.
Here’s our work station.
Andrew’s carving a pumpkin face for the first time.
Cute little triangle nose.
So proud of his handiwork!
Now Sylvie gets a turn.
Andrew and Melanie carve a detailed witch scene into this big guy.
Sylv with the finished pumpkin product.
Mel worked hard on this one, and it looks great!
Photo-taking
Our 2011 Jack-O-Lanterns. The one on the right Andrew designed (see his picture), and I cut.
Here’s Bryan and his sister. ❤
It’ll be fun to put lights in the Jack-O-Lanterns tonight and to see them decorating the front porch as we do our neighborhood trick-or-treating rounds!